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William Hayes @williamhayes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Boromirism - brilliant! If you made that one up then well done and if not then thanks for sharing it!

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William Hayes @williamhayes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

That's fascinating. I can't do iPlayer because I'm in Ireland. Is there an accompanying website listing companies or organisations?

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William Hayes @williamhayes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

You should read about the role that Buddhism plays in the conflicts in Myanmar. Historically Buddhism spread across a huge swathe of Asia under the sword of men like Ashoka People are violent. The religion or ideology that they use to justify the violence changes from era to era and place to place

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William Hayes @williamhayes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Is it just me or does this whole Fairford incident have a very Slow Horses feel to it?

A group of men arrested under suspicion of terrorism outside the Fairford RAF base. They are mostly white looking and their faces have been pictured for anonymity.

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William Hayes @williamhayes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Ireland's not really there. It's very much a two tier system here.

William Hayes @williamhayes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I genuinely can't see how anyone could self identify as Christian and then vote Reform and support Farage. The two things are mutually opposed.

William Hayes @williamhayes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

New York under the cowgirl boot of Shania Law

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William Hayes @williamhayes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Tony Blair Time Lord That's why he adopted that ever so fetching 1st Doctor hairstyle a while back.

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William Hayes @williamhayes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Well if you think you'll need a hip replacement in Ireland within the next forty years, you should get your name on the waiting list now...

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William Hayes @williamhayes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Andor is way back at 32 This is an injustice

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William Hayes @williamhayes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The better parallel might be Putin = Hitler Xi = Stalin The Uigher concentration camps, population replacement in Tibet and cult of personality stuff are much more reminiscent of Stalin than Mussolini. Putin is practically copying Hitler beat for beat just with much less success militarily.

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William Hayes @williamhayes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Yes, that's the common denominator with the vote Tory and vote Reform crowd. I would love to get into the detail of exactly what that means. Is it "Kick out the Muslims"? Is it "Let's get back to patriarchy"? Is it "Tough on crime as long as it's not my crimes"?

William Hayes @williamhayes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Competing with the Glenrothes hippos :-)

William Hayes @williamhayes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Sorry for sounding like a broken record on this but do these people just throw dice to decide who to vote for or does economics no longer come into it? Left leaning economically, working class, Hindu, public sector worker... Roll 2 D6 and if you score above 8 vote Tory.

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William Hayes @williamhayes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

As an Ulsterman the first part of this about English = British = English is just really annoying. But the later section with Defoe is absolutely spot on and the same applies to just about every other "nation." I never in my life thought I would say that JRM is right!

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William Hayes @williamhayes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I don't really like ageing with JRM but William was descended from Rollo whose 10th century chronicler Dudo said was Danish. So he's descended from the Danes and the name Norman is just a corruption of Norseman many of whom were Danes.

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William Hayes @williamhayes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Don't get me started on how Americanised our children are... No, the car does not need gas at the gas station, it needs diesel because we live in Ireland not Kentucky. Rant over for the next 5 minutes...

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William Hayes @williamhayes.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Oh well :-( Not a complete parallel then :-) Thanks for answering my questions!

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William Hayes @williamhayes.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Is there also a Dublin Presbytery over there?

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William Hayes @williamhayes.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

As an Irish Presbyterian this was initially a very confusing thing to read :-) A) You got the Presbytery name wrong it's Derry and Donegal here and B) When did they suddenly get so tech savvy? Best wishes to that alternative universe Donegal Presbytery!

William Hayes @williamhayes.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Another person with centre-left economic views voting for a far right party. What is going on here?

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William Hayes @williamhayes.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This is what shocked me about the Richard Dawkins nonsense. Dawkins (according to his books) believes that whatever a human "soul" appears to be is only a by-product of DNA's need to replicate and the highly evolved brain that supports it. He then goes on to effectively say that AI has a soul.

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William Hayes @williamhayes.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Are the Israelis selling directly or through intermediaries? That should surely be a huge story

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William Hayes @williamhayes.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Very strong 1980s post-apocalypse movie vibes from that machine. Expect Dolph Lundgren to appear, carrying an AK-47, smoking a cigar and wearing an eyepatch any minute now.

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William Hayes @williamhayes.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

When all this is finally over they're going to have to put @theradr.bsky.social in charge of organising a National Repentance & Repair Commission to sort out the US's relationship with the rest of the world and itself. Starting with the families of the millions Trump killed by stopping USAID.

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William Hayes @williamhayes.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Which makes him Lewis's equivalent of Lord Azrael and so Daniel Craig is perfect.

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William Hayes @williamhayes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It's such an odd name to people here on our side of the Atlantic where Tracy is almost exclusively a woman's name.

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William Hayes @williamhayes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Blows up Dalek mothership, casually adjusts bow tie while walking back onto the TARDIS.

William Hayes @williamhayes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

We'll, I for one am glad that Jack, Kack, Lack, Mack, Nack, Oack, Pack and Quack made it out safely :-)

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William Hayes @williamhayes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Didn't you know? There's no such thing as a Muffalo!

William Hayes @williamhayes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Are all the big Catholic academics Prods now?

William Hayes @williamhayes.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The reporter is awful. She is defending the racism of the community with her words and telling this woman that somehow she's the odd one out here for not wanting to be racist.

William Hayes @williamhayes.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Just looked them up. Facing McDonald's! I never knew! I'll give them a try soon.

William Hayes @williamhayes.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

We have a Chocolatier in Tullamore? Spill the beans please :-)

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William Hayes @williamhayes.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Good, if horrific, thread. We really are awful to each other as human beings.

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William Hayes @williamhayes.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I can't see Burnham allowing 3 independence referenda any time soon. It would be deeply disruptive for the North of Ireland which is going through a rough time anyway. I don't even think the Irish government would want that level of turmoil just now given how chaotic the world is getting.

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William Hayes @williamhayes.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

nature it's worship directed to the production of beauty. Seeing as you brought them up, lighthouses are a great example of this. The Stevenson lighthouses around the UK and Ireland which are both functional and beautiful,were designed and built as an act of Christian worship.

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William Hayes @williamhayes.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I'm not American so don't really know about your picture on the left. Jesus says pay taxes so churches should pay their taxes like we do here in Ireland. All art, to a greater or lesser extent, comes from the human desire to worship. Whether that's God, eroticism or

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William Hayes @williamhayes.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

have so much thought put in to how they look. Once we arrive back in Ireland everything just looks so dull and functional for the first few weeks back. So, cathedrals are great spiritually, civically and economically but beauty in the everyday human world is important too.

William Hayes @williamhayes.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Yes, as you probably guessed, I'm a Christian but would love our civic spaces and even our functional spaces to be much more beautiful rather than just plain and boring. We go on holiday to France in the summers quite regularly and their civic buildings and even things like motorway bridges